Rhapsodic guitar with ambient and supportive Mellotron.
Four years ago as of the middle of 2009 I was running wild with Finale. I wrote all sorts of rock-ish music for a band I was in. In conception we were to be a Blood Sweat and Tears sort of band, however my writing was leaning towards the Jethro Tull and King Crimson side of things, which resulted in an immature and sometimes Godawful hybrid of things which really should have never gone together in the first place.
I always have grandiose ideas. Then the idea was to have sort of a Moody Blues type Days of Future Passed concept album... thing. I had this three movement "Theme for a Day," perhaps I'll post the MIDI so you all can compare. It had potential. It did not have maturity.
Well this summer I finally figured out how to spare it down to its essentials, and then I figured out what to do with it. It has ended up different than it was, of course.
This here is only the introduction section, no longer conceived of as a movement. I would have recorded the entire song but I'm not working with a band right now, and I don't have a bass guitar, and I don't even know how to play drumset. When a band comes about, and hopefully they will be receptive of my writings, well then we'll smoosh this infront of the rest of the refined piece.
The title is new and on a whim. I am told of a story that goes:
When the Constitutional convention in Philadelphia had finished it's work and the current U.S. Constitution had been finalized but of course, not yet ratified, a lady in the crowd outside asked...
"Mr. Franklin, what government have you given us?"
...to which he replied...
"A Republic madame, if you can keep it!"